We are a Greek Mythology inspired RP with elements of Percy Jackson taking place in ancient Greece.
-All literacy levels welcomed.
-Unlimited OC slots
-You can play as any Gods, Demigods, Mortals, Canon or just anything.
-weekly events
-a safe place for everyone
-Open to any suggestion and non toxic!
-an easy-to-follow template
-Fair RP system
-New lore so everyone is involved.
Something dark and sinister is rising in the backgound and it is up to you and other heros of camp halfblood to save, or to be the ones to see the destruction of the Greek world. The strings of fate is in your hands.
Perm invite link, invite your friends!
https://discord.gg/st2gEh4gU2
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In my youth, a few decades ago, I met an only boy a few years older than me, in his early twenties named Tyler at a coffee shop. He drove a blue wrangler and was smoking cigarettes in the village with a friend at the only coffee shop in the early foggy morning. I think I may have bummed a cigarette on my way out the door with my americano and began to make conversation. Tyler had just drove from Seattle and boasted of his time back to get his friend home to Carmel Valley. We started talking about music, my favorite band was Modest Mouse. His was some one I’ve never heard of. He was very cool. Plump but cool. He’s seen modest mouse on the Lonesome Crouded West tour. Brock drank whiskey out of a plastic water bottle. Rebel. Then he told me another story.
Tyler had gotten busted for something illegal which I’ve forgotten now, but had gone before a judge and sentenced to a lot of community service. More than 100 hours. I don’t remember what it was but it wasn’t anything serious. More like what a normal adolescent who was unlucky enough to get caught was issued. At the time he lived just north of San Francisco and was given options to what his services would be. Tyler chose trail maintenance. Tyler worked for weeks. It was summer and was home with his parents waking up at dawn, grabbing breakfast and lunch at the local Safeway before heading to the hills to clear trails for 10 hours. Going home exhausted.
One morning Tyler saw an old man outside the grocery store, looking very tired. It was close to 5am. He approached the old man and offered to buy him a sandwich. The old man said he would very much like a sandwich. Returning with the food the old man asked what Tyler was doing that morning and Tyler explained that he was maintaining a broken trail that was high in the mountains close by. The old man seemed interested in this answer and offered to help for another sandwich and some beer to which Tyler obliged even though alcohol was a violation of parole. But Tyler was a rebel and wasn’t directly supervised once on the trail he was working, so he got another sandwich and a few tall cans and rode away with the old man to the hills.
Tyler told me the old man took direction well and ran off with a few tools and worked all day. He made sure the man had done what he asked throughout the day and was pleasantly surprised to see he was a good worker. They took lunch, drank their beers, worked for a few more hours and at the end of the day, the two hiked back to the blue Jeep Wrangler and headed back.
Tyler asked the old man direction to where this seeming homeless man wanted to be dropped off. Expecting a bridge or over pass. The old man didn’t give an address but immediate signals, left here, right here, straight here. The house style was passing slowly got bigger. Gates more decorative. The cars that passed were nicer.
“This guy must have a nice camping spot” Tyler told me. His suspicion never alerting.
The old man pulled up to a gate with a touch pad. Pretty fancy in 2000. The old man pressed the code. The gate opened.
A long driveway. A big house in trees. The mad shows Tyler into his house. Tyler is astonished. It beautiful. The old man leads Tyler into a library, there are gold records on the wall. He studies a few and the old man gets settled, fiddling with things. Bits and bops.
All the records say: Tom Waits
Tyler looks at the man. The man stairs back with a smile as he opens a floor to ceiling cabinet full of liquor bottles.
“I hope you like whiskey” he says with a smile.
Tyler expresses that before this day he had listened to Tom waits but hadn’t seen or noticed a picture or the man. His recollection of the night that fallowed was also hazy. Or he didn’t think my reaction was merit enough to continue the story. He slept on the couch in the study and woke up at dawn to go work trails.
I never saw Tyler again.
Are there more stories like this out there?

Job Ad: Seeking English Teacher to start work July 29 at Daegu English Village in Chilgok.

Reason for Posting: We have a very busy two weeks this summer at the English Village and so we are hiring five (5) teachers to work for two weeks on a temporary basis. I’m the academic director here at DGEV. I have been here for two years and really enjoy working here.
Visa Requirements: Ideally we are looking for F-visas - but I believe some E-visas can qualify if they get permission from their current employer.
Position Covered by Labor Standards Act (LSA): are there more than 5 full time employees? yes.
Salary: ₩29,000 per class with a minimum of ₩1,566,000 for two weeks.
Training: ₩29,000 per class (12 hours provided the week of July 22 to July 26.
Grade level: elementary and middle school
Class length: 45 minute classes for elementary/50 minutes for middle school.
Class hours: how many total classes per week/month: minimum 27 classes per week.
Working Hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Break Time: 12pm to 1pm is lunch. There are also 10-15 minute breaks between classes depending on the level of student.
Prep Time: yes. If the teacher is available, teachers can come for paid prep/training the week before. 12 hours of training/prep time available. We provide teaching materials (powerpoints and workbooks and supplies).
Weekend Work: no
Overtime Pay: in accordance with LSA
Vacation Time: There is no vacation time allotted for this two week period.
Red Days: do you get them off? Yes - but it is not applicable in this scenario.
Sick Leave: no. This is a temporary position (but we are hiring full time as well)
Flight Allowance: in country applicants only for temporary (but full time can be out of country)
Pension/Insurance Coverage: for full time - yes, for temporary - no
Severance: for full time - yes, for temporary - no
Housing: Yes. We provide a dorm and three meals a day if the teacher wants it.
Other: open section for extra benefits: As mentioned above, we offer a dorm, meals are provided free of charge in the cafeteria (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) - and there is a shuttle bus service into town.
About the Workplace: English camp. We offer primarily situational based learning where students practice sentences and vocabulary words in fake environments - ie grocery store, bank, department store, post office, etc.
Opinion of Workplace: I have been working here for two years. I started out as a teacher and now I am the Academic Director. It is fun because we see new kids all the time and can practice teaching the same subjects over and over again.
Contact Info: Here’s my email: [Dylan.campbell.dgev@gmail.com](mailto:Dylan.campbell.dgev@gmail.com)
By using this template, you acknowledge that you have read the sample post, are aware that your ad will be mirror posted to , and understand that the information included in your post is publicly available and subject to criticism from the community.Job Ad: Seeking English Teacher to start work July 29 at Daegu English Village in Chilgok.
Reason for Posting: We have a very busy two weeks this summer at the English Village and so we are hiring five (5) teachers to work for two weeks on a temporary basis. I’m the academic director here at DGEV. I have been here for two years and really enjoy working here.
Visa Requirements: Ideally we are looking for F-visas - but I believe some E-visas can qualify if they get permission from their current employer.
Position Covered by Labor Standards Act (LSA): are there more than 5 full time employees? yes.
Salary: ₩29,000 per class with a minimum of ₩1,566,000 for two weeks
Training: ₩29,000 per class (12 hours provided the week of July 22 to July 26
Grade level: elementary and middle school
Class length: 45 minute classes for elementary/50 minutes for middle school.
Class hours: how many total classes per week/month: minimum 27 classes per week.
Working Hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Break Time: 12pm to 1pm is lunch. There are also 10-15 minute breaks between classes depending on the level of student.
Prep Time: yes. If the teacher is available, teachers can come for paid prep/training the week before. 12 hours of training/prep time available. We provide teaching materials (powerpoints and workbooks and supplies).
Weekend Work: no
Overtime Pay: in accordance with LSA
Vacation Time: There is no vacation time allotted for this two week period.
Red Days: do you get them off? Yes - but it is not applicable in this scenario.
Sick Leave: no. This is a temporary position (but we are hiring full time as well)
Flight Allowance: in country applicants only for temporary (but full time can be out of country)
Pension/Insurance Coverage: for full time - yes, for temporary - no
Severance: for full time - yes, for temporary - no
Housing: Yes. We provide a dorm and three meals a day if the teacher wants it.
Other: open section for extra benefits: As mentioned above, we offer a dorm, meals are provided free of charge in the cafeteria (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) - and there is a shuttle bus service into town.
About the Workplace: English camp. We offer primarily situational based learning where students practice sentences and vocabulary words in fake environments - ie grocery store, bank, department store, post office, etc.
Opinion of Workplace: I have been working here for two years. I started out as a teacher and now I am the Academic Director. It is fun because we see new kids all the time and can practice teaching the same subjects over and over again. There are 20+ English teachers, so we have a good group of folks to work with.

I can't decide if she is conveniently forgetting high school history class, or if she really doesn't know that "bougie" is a shortening of the word bourgeois, a word to describe the Bourgeoisie class of PARISIANS, the wealthy group of people between peasants and aristocrats... Also this other definition used in more modern times: "in Marxist theory, the powerful capitalist class that owns and is concerned with property, as contrasted with the wage-earning class, which must concern itself with survival: the interests of the bourgeoisie are opposed to revolution and invested in the status quo: According to Marx, the rise of the bourgeoisie split the whole of society into two enemy camps—the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Many postcolonial societies in the 21st century are hindered by greedy and repressive bourgeoisies."
Colleen, your whole trip is "bougie". Regular people couldn't drop everything on 2 days notice to buy tickets to a concert, first-class flights to and from a city 5,600 miles away, and a few nights stay in a fancy hotel. Including getting a passport in 1 day (what her friend said she had to do, lets assume Colleen's was still valid). Regular people right now are struggling to buy groceries each week. But hey, at least she accurately categorized herself instead of play acting poor for once.

Round 7 deadline: Tuesday 14th May, 9pm GMT

Hello again!!! In round 6, the results were pretty predictable, but it was really close between 2. Anyway, which episode is the one to go now?
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Free Pass. After surviving several tiebreakers, the first filmed episode has finally been defeated. It got 5 votes, only 1 more than Home which got 4. Just behind them was En Français which got 3 votes.
Which episode should leave in round 7? Which should be crowned as the Survivor? It's up to youuuuu.
Vote for the episode that you like *the least. The episode that gathers the most votes will be eliminated with the **27th place in this game. Make sure you have watched all episodes before voting and don't vote more than once. (I don't think you can anyway)*

VOTE IN ROUND 7 HERE

Round 6 results
Episodes that are fancy flapjacks: (SPOILERS!!!)
S1E1 - Who Do You Think You Are?:

• Alison and Mike inherit Button House
• Ghosts haunt them
• Captain annoyed at Fanny screaming

S1E2 - Gorilla War:

• Mike starts renovating house
• Ghosts annoy Alison
• Alison accepts ghosts as real

S1E3 - Happy Death Day:

• Pat's death day, family visit
• Kitty asks where babies come from
• Captain & Julian try to get rid of builders

S1E5 - Moonah Ston:

• Beg-Chetwyns visit for dinner party
• Captain & Mary help kill/prepare pheasant
• Ghosts do Moonah Ston ritual & watch Friends

S1E6 - Getting Out:

• Alison & Mike consider selling to hotel chain
• Ghosts think of plans to make money
• Captain leaves ghosts

S2E3 - Redding Weddy:

• Captain flashback
• A&M clear garden
• Fanny fancies Mike
• Pat keeps ghosts occupied (moon landing video, volleyball)

S2E4 - The Thomas Thorne Affair:

• Thomas death flashbacks
• Mike worries about meeting Alison's ex

S2E5 - Bump in the Night:

• Alison goes out
• Burglars break into house
• Ghosts try to warn Mike

S2E6 - Perfect Day:

• Claire & Sam wedding
• Pat recognises Keith from his death
• Claire nervous about wedding

S2E7 - The Ghost of Christmas:

• Mike's family visit for Xmas, parents help too much
• Julian feels guilty about avoiding family at Xmas
• Alison gets presents for ghosts

S3E1 - The Bone Plot:

• TV crew making documentary about Humphrey (death flashback)
• Julian thinks Barclay is having heart attack
• Pat tries to make Fanny & Captain laugh
• Thomas prepares Alison for interview

S3E2 - A Lot to Take In:

• Alison meets Lucy
• Julian remembers first day as ghost
• Mike starts new job
• Kitty & Pat dance

S3E3 - The Woodworm Men:

• A&M camp outside during fumigation
• Kitty watches Grease

S3E4 - I Love Lucy:

• Captain spies on Lucy
• Julian changes Mike's emails
• Fanny has affair with Humphrey's body

S3E5 - Something to Share?:

• Kitty shares story about ball
• Mike tries to find way to see ghosts

S3E6 - Part of the Family:

• Mike films promotional video
• Ghosts find out Lucy is lying
• Ghosts do drama/improvisation club

S4E2 - Speak as ye Choose:

• Annie teaching Mary to say what she wants flashback
• Kitty shows Captain how to live in moment
• Thomas goes cold turkey on Alison addiction
• Mike's old friends stay at gatehouse

S4E3 - The Hardest Word:

• A&M try to have relaxing day
• Ghosts make apology song

S4E4 - Gone Gone:

• Pat cheers Kitty up over Mary moving on
• Mike organises children's birthday party last minute
• Alison helps ghosts deal with their feelings about Mary

S4E6 - Not Again:

• Robin's death flashback
• Mike buys giant bear
• Kitty starts talking by saying opposite of what she means

S4E7 - It's Behind You:

• Ghosts put on panto
• Alison shows Pat old VHS recordings
• A&M get stuck in traffic on way to parents

S5E1 - Fools:

• Alison does April Fool's pranks on ghosts
• Insurance company person investigates insurance claim for fire

S5E2 - Home - Thomas enters poetry competition - Kitty thinks she's pregnant - Pat & Julian argue over North vs South - Mike stresses about baby
S5E3 - Pineapple Day:

• Ghosts figure out how Kitty died
• Mike discusses selling land with Barclay
• Thomas, Julian & Humphrey want blue plaque
• Kitty watches 'Is It Cake?'

S5E4 - En Français:

• Ghosts try playing game shows
• French woman visits with translator to see land
• Flashback of Robin learning French from Sophie

S5E5 - Carpe Diem:

• A&M have spontaneous night out
• Robin thinks someone will move on before midnight
• Fanny & Julian make most of possible last day
• Captain's death flashback

S5E6 - Last Resort:

• A&M decide whether to keep or sell house
• Obi shows up having been dumped by Brenda
• Kitty struggles to keep secret of baby's sex
• Pat & Robin fight over weather lady

Episodes that drowned themselves in the lake:
34th place: S5E7 - A Christmas Gift
33rd place: S5E2 - He Came!
32nd place: S2E1 - The Grey Lady
31st place: S2E2 - About Last Night
30th place: S4E5 - Poached Guests
29th place: S4E1 - Happy Holiday
28th place: S1E4 - Free Pass

Below is the opening to my solo playthrough of Phandelver and Below. I've never played the module, but I was introduced to D&D through one of it's many actual plays, and I've always wanted to play the story myself. I thought it would be fun to use my semi-familiarity with the story to run a solo game, allowing me to simultaneously practice my writing. The opening is meant to detail how the Wave Echo Cave was found by the Rockseeker brothers, and explain why my characters are willing to help old Gundren. Below you'll find my version of how the cave was rediscovered and get introduced to my first PC, a young gnome with dreams of becoming a wizard, Erkyfrune 'Kyfrune' Filkor. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it!
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The Lost Mine of Phandelver
A Solo-Play RPG
Nundro Finds the Cave
Gundren Rockseeker finalized his order with Umphrey Baggort’s General Goods shortly before the midday bell. He had a few hours before he’d be meeting Sildar at The Widow’s Tankard to go over their planned route one last time. They were to leave for Phandalin in the morning. There he would reunite with his brothers, Nundro and Thardin, and return to Wave Echo Cave.
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He still found it hard to believe they had found it. Five-hundred years it remained hidden, and all it had taken to locate it was Nundro’s constant clumsiness. He’d tripped, seemingly over nothing, and rolled down the side of a cliff, crashing to a stop amongst an outcropping of large boulders. Gundrin and Thardin had rushed down to him, only to find Nundro laughing like a madman, the dripping blood from his broken nose smearing across his mouth and beard, making him look like a cannibalistic court jester.
“Listen!” He’d shouted, blood spraying from his lips. “The waves! Do you hear them?!”
Gundren, sure Nundro had finally cracked his head one too many times, was hearing nothing more than the sloshing of his own addled brains, but Thardin lowered himself to the stoney ground and pushed his ears against the boulders.
“He’s right, Gundren,” Thardin said, ear still pressed against the large stone, “It’s as if the very Shining Sea were trapped underfoot.”
Nundro stood there, smiling, dripping blood into the dust and stone. “Wave Echo Cave,” He whispered, “It’s ours!”
They’d camped there amongst the boulders, using their picks and shovels to chip away the ground around one of the boulders enough to get their pry bars wedged solidly underneath. It took all three of them, hanging and hopping from the bar like the rumored monkeys of Chult, but they managed to shift it enough that gravity took hold and yanked the giant stone down the embankment, where it shattered amongst the less regal hills surrounding the eastern edges of Phandalin.
It took all of the next day to clear away enough of the stoney ground to reveal the small tunnel entrance that had been buried beneath rubble, rock, and passing time. The sounds of crashing waves seemed enormous in the silence surrounding them.
“We can’t simply walk into there with lanterns and a few day’s rations,” Thardin had said. “We’ll need to set up an excavation camp, which will require a trip back to Neverwinter.”
None of the brothers wanted to leave, but Gundren and Thardin agreed Nundro deserved to stay, being the true locator of the legendary site. They flipped a coin. Thardin won, and Gundrin left the next morning for Neverwinter.
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He’d gotten nearly everything prepared for his departure. There was just one final order of business to take care of, adventurers willing to see the wagon safely to Barthen’s Provisions. And, if they proved capable and loyal, perhaps they could be hired on to clear out the cave on the inevitable creatures that had occupied it during its many forgotten years.
He listened as the final ring of the city bells reverberated into silence, then turned north, heading towards Filkor’s Gadgets and Repairs. There he knew he would find at least one willing adventurer, assuming the boy’s father would let him leave the safety of the shop.
Kyfrune
Erkyfrune Filkor sipped his tea while his father adjusted the small spring in his latest iteration of a years-long obsession.
“I’m telling you Erky, I am this close to figuring it out.” His father, Erkaline, said. The it in question being a nail clipper capable of transforming itself to meet the varying needs of any fingernail, claw, or talon. “Once I finally figure it out, we can move out of this dump and into a properly respectable district. It’s not right for the descendants of Elisytris Filkor to be living in squalor. He was quintessential to the Forge of Spells, you know!”
Erkyfrune, Kyfrune to anyone besides his father, knew this very well. He’d heard the story more times than he could count. Who knew if there was any truth in it, but he loved his father, and feigned interest again, if just so he would be able to concentrate on the story and let his fingers work their talented tinker’s magic.
His father was just getting to the part where Great-Grandfather Elisytris single-handedly took on a trio of raiding bandits and their evil wizard overseer when the three bells above the storefront sounded, signaling a customer, one Kyfrune and Erkaline knew well. Gundren and his brothers had been coming to them for years, always in need of some intricate tool or another to assist in a prospecting project. Kyfrune had always felt a spark of envy for their adventurous life, delving into the ruins of the past for lost treasures and tomes. The latter interested him in particular, for even though his father disapproved, Kyfrune wanted nothing more than to learn the mysteries of Mystra and her magical weave that permeated the very fabrics of reality. Already he’d learned a few spells, and had even recently conjured his first familiar, a celestial wolf spider, he lovingly referred to as Walter.
“Couldn’t you have conjured something less…disgusting? A cat would have at least had fur.” His father had grumbled when Kyfrune had shown him his new magical pet.
“Walter has fur,” Kyfrune had argued.
“Nothing with eight legs should have fur,” his father had replied, shaking his head and returning to one of his seemingly infinite projects. “You should focus more on your craft. One day, you’ll be the Filkor that the sign out front is referring to.”
Kyfrune wasn’t a terrible tinker, but he’d never be capable of the wonders his father could produce. Besides, tinkering was Erkaline’s thing. He never said this, of course. Being a good son was just as important to Kyfrune as learning to bend the energies of the multiverse to his whim.
“Gundren! What can I do for you my friend?” Erkaline asked, removing the magnifying glasses he wore when working. “Need some more of those explosive crickets? How’d that first batch work for you?”
“Howdy Mr. Filkor, Kyfrune, everything going well I hope?” Gundren asked, removing the floppy hat he’d always worn since Kyfrune had known him.
“Can’t say I can complain, anything that’s wrong I just haven’t gotten round to fixin’ yet, and what can’t be fixed, can be made anew” His father laughed at this old joke, and Gundren, the kind patron he was, laughed along as well, even though he’d heard this one probably every time he’d come to the shop.
“Too true Mr. Filkor, your capable hands are powered by an even more capable mind. I, ah, am not actually here for any services you’d normally provide. I’m actually wanting to offer Kyfrune a small job,” Gundren turns to the younger gnome, “I’ve heard you’ve a decent grasp of the weave, any truth in those rumors?”
Kyfrune, bringing the cup of tea to his mouth for another sip, was caught off guard by the unexpected question, and spilled most of his remaining tea over his work shirt. Rather than answer Gundren, which his ever-present social awkwardness would have caused him to stammer meekly through, he waved his hands over his sodden shirt and muttered a simple incantation. The tea, lemon ginger with lots of honey, simply faded, leaving his shirt dry and spotless.
“That’s quite the trick, any bandits or goblins with brains in their skulls would run screaming from such deadly powers,” Gundren laughed, not unkindly. “Seriously Kyf, do you think you could provide protection for a wagon of supplies I’ve ordered? It’s not going far, just down the High Road a ways and east along the Triboar Trail, to a small settlement called Phandalin. It’d need to be brought to a gentleman named Barthen. He owns Barthen’s Provisions, and will pay you 10 gold once you’ve delivered the wagon. Normally I’d go with it myself, but I’ve got to meet Nundro and Thardin as soon as possible,” he leans closer and whispers, “We’ve found something. Something pretty big. If you do well with the wagon, maybe I could bring you in on the excavation of a legendary site, thought to be lost to time.”
“You can’t mean-” Erkaline began, but Gundren cut him off with a curt wave.
“Best not to speak of anything now. Ears and eyes are known to be anywhere, and I’m not wanting any competition. What do you say Mr. Filkor, can you spare young Kyfrune for a week or so, two out the most?”
Kyfrune looked to his father, who rubbed his large nose and pulled at his forked beard, largely white now, with only a few streaks of the once inky black that had been its original color. He wasn’t going to beg or plead. He loved his father, and would do as he bid, but oh sweet Mystra, please let him say yes.
“I suppose, if you can promise it’d be no more than a week or so, I could spare my apprentice,” his father began, then turned to Kyfrune, “But Erkyfrune, you listen and listen good. I never liked your messing with this magic nonsense, but I understood your youth. Consider this your pilgrimage into the world of adventure. Upon your return, I expect you to set aside these childish fancies and start putting the work in that is necessary for you to take over the shop. Agreed?”
Kyfrune’s heart somehow managed to soar and plummet at the same time, leaving him with a momentary feeling of unsteadiness. To finally be given approval to venture forth into the world, a world that wanted him to wield his magical abilities, only to have the approval tethered to a promise to walk away from his dream. His father’s serious eyes looked at him expectantly.
“Yes, Father. Your terms are agreeable, and I thank you for allowing me to experience an adventure before settling into my destined path.”
His father’s gaze faltered momentarily, but he quickly regained his composure, turning to Gundren, “Well Gundren, it would seem you have yourself a wizard. You’re not planning on sending my boy out on the road alone are you?”
“Of course not, sir. He’ll be accompanied by at least two more souls, although I’m not sure of who they are as of yet.”
Erkaline smiled, “I’m sure the great city of Neverwinter will provide you with a couple more adventurers for your quest.”
Gundren nodded, then placed his hat upon his head. “I’ll need Kyfrune at The Widow’s Tankard by ninth bell,” he looked to Kyfrune, “ I’ll have the contract ready and’ll buy you dinner. I’ll show you the route you’ll need to take, and, perhaps, I’ll fill you in on more of the details.” His eyes glinted with excitement. “Be well Mr. Finkor,” he said, then walked out the door. The three bells above the door sounded very loud in the quiet shop. Kyfrune turned to his father, who was putting the magnifying glasses back into position and settling himself at his workbench.
“I suppose I should pack my things,” he said.
“I suppose you should son,” Erkaline looked up from the nail clippers that he hoped would change his and his son’s lot in life, “Be careful, okay. Take in the world, experience your adventure, heck, shoot off some of those spells you know, but please, be careful.”
Kyfrune walked around the bench and hugged his father tightly, then walked upstairs to his small room to pack. He’d never felt more excited in his entire life.

Hey all - looking to make a small belt sheath for my girlfriend. She likes smaller belts (1.25 at most) and I'm currently shopping fixed blades in the smaller size. Any templates y'all like instead of the makers free one? Just looking for something with a bit of flair!

I have not locked in many sites as I would like some feedback on "must see" in each location. I have some temples and shriens and other locations in my notes, but have not kocked in many speciifcs as I would appreciate thoughts on things "I can't miss" on each city stop. Appreciate any thoughts.
Also, really want to see Mount Fuji...so I booked for day trip. I may alter depending on weather...but is it feasible for a day and possibly last day?
Also, is Nara a good day trip from Osaka?
JAPAN ITINERARY

TOKYO
May 26
ARRIVE TOKYO
SHINJUKA

• Stay at Kimpton Shinjuko

-Explore Area
-Shinjuko Goen
May 27
TOKYO
Team Lab Planets 11:30am
ASAKUSA
-Sensoji Temple
-Yokocho
May 28
TOKYO
Team Lab Borderless 12:00pm
HARAJUKU
-Meiji Shrine
-Takeshita Dori Street
SHIBUYA
-Stream Mall
-Pepper Parlor
-Crossing
-Shibuya Sky
May 29
Travel to KYOTO
-Stay at Muromachi Yutone (Ryotan)
-Explore nearby area
May 30
KYOTO
-Stay at Ritz Carton Kyoto
-Explore Area
-Kinkau-ji (Morning)
-Kiyomizu-dera
May 31
KYOTO
-Fushimi Inari Taisha (Morning early)
-Tea ceremony with Kimono
-Geisha Dance and walking tour of area
June 1
Travel to OSAKA
-Stay at Ritz Carlton (Too fancy? Should I stay somewhere else?)
-Osaka Castle
June 2
OSAKA
Day trip to NARA
June 3
TRAVEL TO TOKYO
-Stay at Kimpton Shinjuko
-Eat at Ichiran Ramen
June 4
TOKYO
-Day Trip MT FUJI
June 5
DEPART TOKYO

I was trying to make a fancy diagonal line in my camp, but god forbid if you try to do something fancier than a square box... the full slanted wall doesnt connect to anything and even it if shows up as blue, it cant be placed down...
Ive tried placing it on top of a arch (to make a full wall) and it says its floating. Other posts claim that no other walls or floors should be touching it, but even then it shows as floating.
Others claim it has to be connected to a roof or floor, but in both cases the error now turns into that it is intersecting with existing objects.
Can you even place these walls down at all?

Hi All!
My wife and me will leave to the US from Europe for a West Coast Roadtrip and I have a 95% finalised itinerary but if there are any recommended activities that I am missing or if I packed too much in a day, please advise. Campgrounds and all of the activities which need reservations are already reserved. Specialty coffee places and food tips are very welcome, we are not picky at all but love to eat basically anything from Five Guys to gourmet restaurants.
Day 1 - Arrive at 17:30 in San Francisco airport and take our rental car, drive to Pacifica Taco Bell for dinner, shop in Walmart or any other chain for roadtrip groceries and sleep in the Inn at Moss Landing, heading down there on Highway 1
Day 2 - Whale watch with blue ocean whale watching at 9 a.m. Head down to Monterey after that for lunch, check out Carmel by the Sea and because of the road closure at Big Sur head down to our next accomodation in Cambria for the evening
Day 3 - Leave in the morning, check out Hearst Castle and elephant seal watch and San Simeone, coffee at Scout coffee in San Luis Obispo, fast food for lunch, check out Morro Bay and Montana de Oro or Pismo beach and drive to Los Angeles in the evening to the hotel.
Day 4 - Universal Studio in the morning, mainly Harry Potter world and after we are finished there, check out the sunset at Griffith Observatorium and walk to Vista or Los Feliz Cinema to watch a classic movie and if there is time go to a bar for cocktails in the proximity.
Day 5 - Check out Santa Monica Pier, go down to Sports Basement to pick up car camping rentals (inflatable bed, trekking poles, sleeping bag) and drive to Joshua Tree campground for a late afternoon, evening hike and sleep in the campground.
Day 6 - Wake up early and do another hike in the morning, after that drive to Las Vegas hotel. Check out the Strip and then put it all on red in the hotel casino? We have a room in a great hotel so this may be a more relaxing afternoon / day.
Day 7 - Leave LV in the morning and drive through or to Valley of Fire State Park for a little while and arrive in Zion National Park in the afternoon to do a very short hike (Watchman Trail).
Day 8 - Scout Lookout trip and The Narrows in Zion NP in the morning and use the shuttle back, either to the car or if we have time and energy to see the Emerald Pools. Leave late and arrive to our Page accomodation late in the evening
Day 9 - Head to the Horseshoe Bend very early to see the sunrise (it is really close from our airbnb). Booked Antalope Canyon tour for early afternoon. Drive to Grand Canyon Mather campground in the afternoon, if possible catch the sunset there and sleep in the campground.
Day 10 - Start in the morning, hike the South Kaibab trail to Cedar Ridge or Skeleton Point depending on the weather and our energy level. Long drive in the afternoon to Death Valley Furnace Creek campground and arrive there in the evening for sleep and stargazing.
Day 11 - This seems like a really exhausting day but will have a rest day after this. Wake up really early and drive to Sequoia National Park, have a shorter hike (Moro rock trail or eagle viewpoint) and maybe the General Sherman Tree. In the afternoon drive to a hotel in Oakhurst for the night.
Day 12 - Relax in the hotel, maybe check out Bass Lake in the vicinity? If we are not tired, which I think we will be then maybe hike in Yosemite that day, too.
Day 13 - Lower Pines campground reservation, all-day hike. Recommendation for hikes? Sleep in the campground.
Day 14 - Whole day Yosemite. Recommendation for all day hikes? Sleep in the campground.
Day 15 - Multiple options, do not know which would be the best or most viable option:

1. Hike again in Yosemite all day and drive to San Francisco hotel late in the afternoon
   
2. Maybe a short hike in Yosemite and drive to Lake Tahoe, Emerald bay for a short time and after that drive to San Francisco hotel for the night
   
3. Maybe a short hike in Yosemite and drive to Big Sur as the road closures will be lifted by then, check out Pfeiffer Falls for a short time and drive back to San Francisco hotel
   

Day 16 - Relaxing days ahead, chill sightseeing in SF, Golden Gate Park and mission district maybe fishermans wharf. Go to a bar for cocktails.
Day 17 - Alcatraz day tour, more sightseeing in SF, recommendations are welcome. Dinner in State Bird Provisions for our last full day.
Day 18 - Last day, check out of the hotel, drink some coffee and grab some fast food, maybe a very light walk in SF and head to the airport to leave at 4:25 pm.
All of the recommendations are very welcome and thanks in advance!

Recipient: my fiancée (female, mid-late 20s).

• I'm male, mid-late 20s.
• I moved in to her house a few years ago. We're the only people who live here. She really likes getting new decorations, but I have given her at least a couple of wall-hanging items as gifts in the past and thus would like to avoid those.
• We live in a suburban neighborhood with a small fenced-in backyard.
• Both of us work remotely full time at home. But once every several months, she travels for work for at least a few days. In the past, she has had to stay in an apartment in different states for weeks due to the nature of the project she was on at the time (consultant). But she hasn't had to do that in over a year, and she doesn't expect that she'll need to any time soon.
• We're getting married later this year. It's going to be a pretty nontraditional wedding with a weekend stay at a mountain retreat, sunrise ceremony, and then a standard reception party later in the evening. We're not giving each other gifts for the wedding itself.
• One other unique aspect about the wedding is that all the things we're supplying ourselves (such as the plates) are secondhand/thrifted items. It's going to be a wide variety of mixed and matched things that give slightly rustic aesthetics contrasting with typical formal wedding aesthetics.
• We became dog owners a few months ago with a Shetland sheepdog (female, 7 months old). Fiancée is the one who really wanted her, and she's definitely more "her dog" than mine, but don't get me wrong, I love her too. (I have requested a quote for a professional photo session with the dog and us already. This would be the birthday gift if the quote is reasonably close to my budget.)
• We also have 2 cats (both male, a few years old), but she's not nearly as close to them as she is to the dog.
• Edit: We already have several in-home cameras for monitoring the pets.
• She likes going camping and other less intensive outdoor activities such as hiking and kayaking. She doesn't get to go very often due to a very busy schedule/lifestyle though.
• She LOVES travelling and staying in cute AirBnBs/Vrbos. I once paid for a weekend stay as a gift to her in a past year. I don't want to do that again now because we have a lot of travel booked for this year already.
• She made it very clear early on that she does not want me to ever try getting her clothing or jewelry as gifts because she has very particular taste and frequently just gets her own stuff of that nature when she feels like it.
• She generally prefers receiving gifts that are things which she normally would not spend money on otherwise. I know this may be too vague to be useful for you, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.
• We both drink alcohol regularly. One of my favorite gifts that she has ever given me is a fancy glass decanter for my whiskeys. She isn't necessarily into a specific kind of drink herself, but she is very well-known in our friend group for her talent with mixing cocktails. (We have a whole cabinet dedicated to mixers, bartending tools, and so forth.) I have also gotten her a home wine making kit as a past gift which can still be used, so that's off the table.
• We're both avid coffee drinkers and have an espresso machine with a full coffee cabinet. Idk if there is anything else that we could possibly use for coffee, but maybe there's something that I've just never known about. (She introduced me to coffee drinking via this machine a few years ago when she got it.)

If I think of anything else that could be useful, I'll edit this post.

We have recently acquired custody of my brother-in-law's Shiba puppy. He has a really busy schedule and it just doesn't work with having a puppy. I had recently had to put my dog of 10 years down due to cancer so we decided to take the puppy. The puppy has been really great so far. He is good with the kids and our other dog. Are there any tips and tricks that you guys can give us on training the puppy? He is about 4 months old and we are starting obedience classes next week, hopefully. We like to camp as a family so we want him to be comfortable outside also. We have never had a purebred puppy before and we don't know how that might effect training and such. ( We are more 'adopt the most mixed breed dog at a kennel' type of people). His name is Azuki, but since we brought him home 2 night ago he has been called Archie, fancy pants, bean, and hob goblin.

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Hi there! I’ve posted once before about surprising my partner with a camping trip to GNP in July. The campsites are all booked and I plan to tell him about this surprise on his birthday soon. I’d like to give him a little gift basket with the itinerary.
What would you put in a gift basket to tell someone about a trip to GNP?
TIA! Also I’ve learned a lot from this sub so thank you :)

Morning fam! My friend and I are getting into Michigan the day before heading into the festival, and we want to camp near some dunes in the area.
I’ve done a little research for campsites and parks in the area, but I wanted to ask around in case anyone has some insight on some good spots.
Nothin fancy, just tent stuff ✌️

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Shipping worldwide with tracking. Estimates for keysets/keyboards:

• Europe and UK: 15-20/25-30USD
• Anywhere else: 25-35/35-75USD

Items I am looking for:

• DSA Deep Space blanks/spacebars (from the OG run only)
• HWS Earls (Singles Night "A Green", multishots; wishlist)
• Lin Dolinger 2017 (fancy colors: pink, blue/grey)
• Lin Dolphin OG (from ~2014)
• Lin Dolphin V2 (with alu weight; two-tone with fancy colors and WKL preferred)
• Lin Dolphin V3 (WKL only, red bottom or full green)
• Lin EM7 OG (from ~2014)
• Lin EM7 V2 (with alu weight; two-tone preferred)
• OG red alu plate for Lin Dolphin V2 SE
• Realforce 87U 10th Anniversary (stock)
• Realforce R2 TKL 10th Anniversary (stock)
• TX-1800 V1

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• Condition: new, unbuilt with some imperfections on the case pictured here (slight top/bottom color mismatch and tiny dent at the seam, anodization banding all around the top piece as well as a couple faint scratches, machining marks/nicks on the weight)
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LZ MP
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• Number 06/50
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• Spare Leeku TX75 PCB with RGB underglow available for an extra 50USD (not selling separately from this board)
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• RAMA Canvas (small)
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• GMK Awaken: 50USD
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• GMK Fleuriste: 50USD
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Looking for HWS Earls (wishlist): Singles Night "A Green", and specific multishots
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As I've been GMing a Daggerheart campaign, I've had to throw together a few homebrew things in order to keep things fresh and engaging for my players as well as scale some things on the fly that weren't covered by the existing text. One of those bits are Environments, which I absolutely love (and so does this Reddit if a few topics are any indicator). So I'm making this topic to discuss how I go about making my own environments and what I've extrapolated from pre-existing ones in the Playtest material.

Breaking Down Pre-Existing Environments: Base Stats

To make an environment without rules or a template, we need to take a critical eye to what is being provided and see if we can't figure out general "guidelines" on how the developers make them. The most obvious stuff is that we need a Tier, Type, Difficulty, and Potential Adversaries to form a statblock.
The golden rule about environments is that an environment's effects need not be necessarily detrimental to the players. A variety of environments offer beneficial effects to PCs, though this is predominantly through environmental passives - more on that later.
Tier is simply what level your party is at. This information is covered in the playtest material more in depth as to what tier your players should be encountering, but a general rule is that the environment will match the same tier as your adversaries.
Type is broken down into four categories:

• Exploration: For when your party is moseying about to get from one destination to another. This should not be confused with Traversal which is a more specific environment that can be within another environment.
• Social: For when your party is in a populated environment where there isn't as much of a risk of expected dangers. These environments are good for cities, towns, tribal camps, etc.
• Traversal: These environments are fairly specific and are meant for environments that impose some measure of difficulty or danger to your party within that contained environment. Steep mountains, canyon cliffsides, raging rivers, thorny brambles, etc.
• Events: These are likely the least common as they pertain to a particular event (hence the name) that occurs in the course of the story. It need not be specific to a certain biome or challenge and for the most part will be the result of the story culminating from adversarial gatherings (Cult Ritual), a festival, or otherwise.

Difficulty is simply the "goal" or number that players' rolls typically have to meet in order for an environment's conditions to proc, but as stated in the playtest material, an individual adversary's difficulty may differ.
Potential Adversaries are exactly that! Your adversary choices should roughly be made to fit in the environment. While having your party encounter Pirates can be novel and fun, it wouldn't make much sense to have Pirates in a Desert environment without some decent story-telling and worldbuilding.
The stats of our environment are ultimately the mechanical side of things, but they help to express how dangerous that environment is. A peaceful city is a much different environment than a pirate haven much the same way that a cordial shop is much different than a royal court! Consider how our stats express how dangerous or challenging the environment is for our players, respective to their tier.
On the subject of the stats expressing the challenge of your environments, we need to ask ourselves some questions about how that environment is defined: If our Forest Meadow is Traversal (which as you'll remember tends to be more difficult/dangerous than Exploration), what is it that makes it a Traversal environment? Perhaps the grass here has a toxic pollen that hampers the PCs, causing them to mark Stress on failed Strength rolls when they breathe it in as their fortitude fails them! Or maybe the meadow has secret pitfalls at every turn that risk characters twisting an ankle if they aren't savvy enough to spot them through the foliage!
Difficulty is a bit more of a consideration. To start, remember to stick to our party's Tier and base it on that. This is actually covered in the Playtest document with a general baseline by tier, but we can have a range if we want something a little more or less significant. I recommend a range of -/+1 and no more than that. Your environment can be easier to overcome with not-so-hostile effects, or it can be particularly challenging and harsh on failure! I personally like to contrast my difficulty values with my damage values, with lower difficulties having higher damages and vice versa.
Damage is a tricky part. As mentioned, I like to scale difficulty and damage contrasting one another, but generally speaking, our environment should not do more damage than is necessary to impose a Major threshold's worth of damage. For this, I like to have higher difficulty/lower damage focus on the Minor threshold, and higher difficulty/lower damage focus on the Major threshold. A strange consideration in the playtest material is that the Tier 3 guidelines suggest a whopping 4d12 damage base which is fairly reliable for nailing the Major threshold, so my suggestions alter from the norm there to account for it as the highest possible damage output.
To simplify all of this, let's put it in a table:

	Tier 0	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Playtest Suggested Difficulty	11	14	17	20
My Suggested Difficulty	10 - 12	13 - 15	16 - 18	19 - 21
Playtest Suggested Damage	1d6	2d8	2d12	4d12
My Suggested Damage	1d4+1, 1d6, 2d6+2	1d8, 2d8, 2d6+5	1d8+1, 2d12, 2d12+5	2d6, 4d8+7, 4d12

An Example: I've made an environment with a Difficulty of 13, which is slightly less than is suggested for a Tier 1 environment. To compensate for an easier difficulty to overcome, I've scaled the damage a little higher to potentially dip into Major Threshold territory. This signifies that my environment - while not as overtly challenging - is still quite dangerous if the character doesn't take it seriously!

Passives, Reactions, Actions, and Fear

Now we're getting into the true meat and fun part of crafting an environment. We need to consider what happens in our environment, but to do that we need to take a magnifying glass to what makes an Action... well, an Action! We'll look at a few examples provided by the developers and see how we can draw inspiration from those.

Passives

Passives are typically fairly mundane and non-hostile to our players. In fact, many Passives are actually quite beneficial to our players in certain conditions! Environmental passives can offer beneficial effects on trait rolls for players, such as having advantage on a trait roll or a beneficial modifier to those rolls. However, to gain these, players typically have to sacrifice something of value or put in some measure of work to get them. This can either be offering up gold (such as the Bustling Marketplace) or by doing some investigative work with a Presence roll (such as the Local Tavern).
Now, an important distinction for Passives is that it largely depends on the environment's type. Whereas Social environments tend to offer players beneficial effects, Traversal are quite the opposite! Traversal passives can sometimes include a Progress Countdown, requiring players to perform several trait rolls in order to overcome the environment's passive condition. A good example of this is The Climb passive of the Cliffside Ascent, which requires players achieve multiple successes to reach the top. Otherwise, they might not reach the apex or, worse, fall to their deaths!
When making passives, consider if the environment would play to player's favor or if there is some challenge to overcome.

Reactions

Reactions are a bit uncommon, but do have a place! Reactions generally are what happens if a PC engages in a certain activity. Maybe they've failed a roll and some negative consequence occurs as a result (such as the Gossip reaction of the Baronial Court). Maybe they've ventured off by themselves and become separated from the party (such as the Crowd Closes In reaction of the Bustling Marketplace).
Reactions typically only incur a Stress mark on failure for the offending player, but they can affect multiple players at once depending on the circumstances. Remembering our golden rule, however, these reactions may not necessarily be damaging to the players! A player might perform an action in an environment that denotes a beneficial result like turning a Fear roll into a Hope roll (such as the Relentless Hope reaction of the Hallowed Temple).
When considering Reactions, think about something a player is likely to do in that environment. A sacred garden with lots of lowers might prompt a player to smell the roses, but if those roses are living and don't want to be disturbed, they might be a bit more prickly than the player expects!
Reactions can come with a Fear cost, but most of what I'll talk about with that will be covered in the Actions section, so keep reading!

Actions: True Actions and 'Fearful' Actions

Actions, in a word, are diverse in their application, and are the bread and butter of your environments. They are generally how the GM influences the story directly in a way that ups the stakes. This is primarily through the use of GM Moves and Fear tokens and serve as a fantastic way for the GM to utilize these resources outside of combat. To clarify a few things, I've divided actions into two types: True Actions and Fearful Actions, to help denote which ones use which resources.
To start with True Actions, an important distinction for them is that they may be used even without an action tracker in play and regardless of action token costs. This means that a GM can utilize their resources even out of combat! Super handy for when you're capped on Fear and still want to twist the narrative a bit.
Actions in environments are generally how the GM influences a scene by imposing some adversarial encounter that may not necessarily result in a combat encounter. They can be used to summon potentially adversarial NPCs/adversaries to confront the players for a variety of things (such as the You Are Not Welcome Here action in the Abandoned Grove or We Met Again in the Baronial Court). This can be a social confrontation or even a direct, non-violent removal of the players' items (such as the Sticky Fingers action of the Bustling Marketplace).
True Actions are also ways to make things much more difficult for the players through the environment itself interfering with them, imposing trait rolls that come with status conditions on failure (such as the Grasping Vines of The Burning Heart of the Wood). We can also utilize them to keep our adversaries in play, healing their damage or removing their Stress (such as the Aura of Death of the Necromancer's Ossuary).
Yet, our golden rule still applies here, as we as GMs can utilize True Actions to coax the players into things that may benefit them, like finding a rare(r) item they might need/want (such as the Unexpected Find in the Bustling Marketplace).
Fearful Actions are much more insidious and do not benefit the players. These actions require spending Fear tokens and come with nearly guaranteed negative effects toward the players, manifesting primarily as direct summons of adversaries to oppose them or truly difficult circumstances that can include damaging effects. Fearful actions are how we as GMs take a hard narrative twist to directly challenge the players.
These actions are much more narrow in scope but can impose a Progress Countdown to resolve (such as the Framed! action of the Baronial Court) or worse yet, cause direct damage to the player if they fail a trait roll or are not aided in some way (such as the Fall action of the Cliffside Ascent). Moreover, Fearful Actions can even give Adversaries some beneficial effect on spawning, such as coming in unbeknownst to the players or using one of their actions without a cost right off the cuff!
When considering the creation of these actions, consider how the environment or adversaries could impose incredibly difficult circumstances on the players that need not necessarily come from the mechanical stats themselves. Having a Chaldworm pop up immediately with its Superheated buff already going is a huge way to ramp up the stakes in an encounter the players never even knew they were engaged in!

Special Note: Progress Countdowns

Its special because Progress Countdowns are the culmination of long-term effects that the players have to resolve, and should be used sparingly! These can either be attributed to an environment's Passive or Action, may have a Fear cost, or other various circumstances. Ultimately the big consideration here is that Progress Countdowns are a bit of a wildcard but are generally included to up the stakes for the players in a way that goes beyond just the one scene. They may be spending quite a bit of time tracking down that thief that stole their goods (such as the Sticky Fingers action of the Bustling Marketplace)!

Summary

So now that we have an idea of what considerations go into making environments, let's summarize so we can quickly make some environments using the information we've already gone over!
Tier: Base this on your party's level! Type: Refer to prior Type breakdown! Difficulty: Refer to prior table! Potential Adversaries: Specific to your environment and creativity!
Environment Features:

• Pick a combination of no more than five (5) total different Passives, Reactions, and Actions.
• You'll want 1-2 Passives which define the general aura of the environment itself and how it interacts with the players
• 1-2 Reactions if the players are likely to engage in a particular activity. Remember that these can have Fear costs if they're more challenging!
• Fill the rest with Actions that express how the environment is interacting with the players either through the environment itself or through NPCs/adversaries!
• If your Action summons NPCs/Adversaries to confront the players in a way that it not necessarily violent, use a True Action (with action token costs)
• If your Action summons Adversaries to violently confront the players, use a Fearful Action (with Fear token costs).
• When utilizing Actions, remember that you can use them as a means of influencing the challenges players face by directly imposing difficulty on them without the use of an adversary/NPC!
• If you utilize a Progress Countdown, remember it can come with either an environmental Passive or as an imposed Action.

Above all remember the golden rule! Any and all environment effects can benefit the players somehow. Your environments need not necessarily be adversarial to your players; be kind to one another <3

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